Lis-na-Carraig — Brighton Road

Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey house, built 1862, on a rectangular plan; three-bay two-storey rear (east) elevation. Extended, 1998; 2004, producing present composition. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on rendered bases having curvilinear capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered, ruled and lined plinth with rusticated cut-granite piers or pilasters to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening in square-headed recess approached by flight of four replacement bull nose-detailed cut-granite steps, timber doorcase with fluted pilasters on padstones supporting swan neck pediment on blind frieze on ogee-detailed stringcourse, and rendered surround with monolithic pilasters on padstones supporting ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window opening in bipartite arrangement (north) with cut-granite sill, pilaster mullion, and moulded rendered lugged surround with ogee-detailed hood moulding on blind frieze framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed flanking window opening (south) with cut-granite sill, and moulded rendered lugged surround with ogee-detailed hood moulding on blind frieze framing one-over-one timber sash window. Camber-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed granite ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting crocketed cast-iron double gates.